On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, matthew green wrote:

> can not most of this problem be solved by making all the games owned
> by root.wheel, rather than games.bin ?

Then all the games would be suid root. :-) But as others have
pointed out, we can probably minimise the risk by making games
setgid.

> personally, i want to do that
> for *all* installed programs also...  i *really* don't understand the
> concept of a `bin' account or group, when it comes to security issues.

I don't actually understand this either. Can anyone explain it?

cjs

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